Halifax, West Yorkshire

Halifax
Town
Top: Halifax from Beacon Hill Middle: the Piece Hall, Minster and Town Hall Bottom: Dean Clough Mills
Coat of arms
Halifax Show map of Calderdale Halifax Location within West Yorkshire Show map of West Yorkshire
Population	88,134 (2011 Census)
Demonym	Haligonian
OS grid reference	SE090254
• London	165 mi (266 km) S
Metropolitan borough	Calderdale
Metropolitan county	West Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Areas of the town	List Bank Top Boothtown Catherine Slack Copley Fountainhead Godley Gardens Holmfield Illingworth Illingworth Moor Lee Mount Mixenden (Village) Moor End Mount Tabor Norton Tower Ovenden (Village) Pellon Savile Park Shibden Siddal Skircoat Green St. Paul's Stump Cross Thrum Hall Town Centre Warley Town
Post town	HALIFAX
Postcode district	HX1–HX4
Dialling code	01422
Police	West Yorkshire
Fire	West Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
UK Parliament	Halifax
List of places UK England Yorkshire 53°43′30″N 1°51′47″W / 53.725°N 1.863°W / 53.725; -1.863

Halifax is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. It is near the east Pennine foothills. In the 15th century, the town became an economic hub of the old West Riding of Yorkshire, primarily in woollen manufacture with the large Piece Hall square later built for trading wool in the town centre. The town was a thriving mill town during the Industrial Revolution with the Dean Clough Mill buildings a surviving landmark. In 2011, it had a population of 88,134. It is also the administrative centre of the wider Calderdale Metropolitan Borough.